Need-based Scholarship that supports a Michigan Daily writer based upon quality of work over twelve months and financial need. Established in 2004 in memory of Christopher Parks, a co-EIC of The Daily in 1973-74.

Provide link to quality work published in the Daily during the last 12 months

Class of 1998 Fund

Need-based Scholarship supporting Michigan Daily student reporters and editors in good standing. Preference is given to students with a demonstrated interest in a career in journalism or mass communications.

Provides scholarship support to freshman, sophomore, or junior Michigan Daily editorial staff member(s) whose contributions to the university community have been soundly constructive and who have a demonstrated financial need.

Based upon need and merit, supports sophomore, junior or senior business or edit staff member(s) who have performed their duties meritoriously. This scholarship honors two Daily men who served in the armed forces during World War II and gave their life in battle.

Merit award that provides support for any Michigan Daily writer who has worked for the Daily for at least two semesters. Established in memory of Naweed, a former sports editor who wrote philosophical columns about the nature of sports. He graduated from UM in 2000 with a finance degree from the business school, and tragically passed away at the age of 27 from cancer in 2009.

Submit links to sports writing that exhibit the significance of athletics, the relationship between the student athlete and the student body, an investigative yet ethical style, a search for truth and a sense of humor

Ken Fink Michigan Daily Photojournalism Award

The Ken Fink Award Fund supports an annual prize to a staff photographer who demonstrates creativity, humor, spontaneity, originality, and technical mastery. The fund was established as a memorial to Ken Fink, a Daily photographer, Photo Editor and Arts & Food Editor from 1972 through 1977 by a group of his college newspaper friends in 1999.

Submit links to three photos, photo stories, or multimedia projects created for the Daily during the past twelve months, that exhibit "creativity, spontaneity, originality, and technical mastery."

Stanford Lipsey Merit Awards

Created and named in honor of Stanford Lipsey, former Michigan Daily and Michiganensian photographer and a great supporter of Student Publications, there are three annual merit awards given out: The Stanford Lipsey Journalism Award for Investigative Reporting; The Stanford Lipsey Journalism Award for Public Service Reporting; and The Stanford Lipsey Journalism Award for Photographic or Multimedia Storytelling.

A new award established in memory of Rick Freeman by his wife Aino Wheler and fellow Daily alum, Jennifer Yachnin. Rick was a beloved managing sports editor at the Daily (1999) who went on to work at the AP sports desk in NY, and passed away at age 40 from brain cancer, in 2017. This award recognizes a rising junior or senior member of The Michigan Daily staff who has worked at the Daily for at least one semester, and can demonstrate an enthusiasm for news-gathering, friendship, or life in general.